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EADaily, December 25th, 2025. Polish officials from the Gdansk administration tried to return to their disposal the building of the closed Russian consulate, which is located on Stefan Batory Street.

Best Things to do in Gdansk with Kids It is easy to fill a few days with fun things to do in Gdansk without traveling far outside the city center. Since the city is compact and traffic in the Old Town ...

FeatureDiscover the cradle of the Solidarnosc trade union and its shipyards, go back to the 16th-century golden age, and plunge into the Middle Ages at Malbork Castle – a brick version of Versailles.

Transporting goods by boat has been the backbone of the world’s economy for centuries. Massive cargo ships are unloaded by skilled dockworkers using skyscraper-sized cranes. But how did ships disgorge ...

The 21 demands are the demands made by the Strike Committee in August 1980 in Gdansk, which led to the creation of Solidarity, the first free trades union within the communist bloc. In the course of ...

Forty years ago, on August 31, 1980, strikers at Poland's Gdansk shipyard and the communist regime signed an historic deal enabling the creation of Solidarnosc (Solidarity), the Soviet bloc's first ...

A sunken Borders fishing boat could be returning home after being salvaged from the bottom of a Polish harbour. The Incentive, a wooden fishing cutter, was once central to Eyemouth's fleet and a ...

The World from Berlin 'Putin Found the Right Words in Gdansk' Russian President Vladimir Putin helped ease tensions with Poland by giving a conciliatory speech at Tuesday's ceremony in Gdansk to mark ...

The brief appearance of a concrete sculpture in Gdansk last Saturday depicting a Red Army soldier raping a pregnant woman has sparked ire on both the Polish and Russian sides. Now the artist could be ...

When it comes to planning a city break in Poland, Gdansk may not roll off the tongues of most UK travellers, but this gem on the Baltic Coast is one of the most scenic, cultural and historically ...